Flock Wrote Its Own Rulebook, and the Word 'Warrant' Is Not In It
After at least fifty officers were accused of using its plate network to stalk people they knew, Flock Safety announced reforms: seven-day default ret...
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ICE Pulled a $125 Million Sole-Source Contract and Nobody Should Feel Relieved
ICE withdrew its no-bid $125 million surveillance-data award to Thomson Reuters and will compete it instead, with a solicitation expected 24 August. I...
Three Weeks After Chatrie: What the Supreme Court's Geofence Ruling Actually Changed — and What It Didn't
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, extending Carpenter into the cloud. But the Court pointedly declined...
100,000 Cameras and a Reckoning: How Flock Safety Became America's Most-Cancelled Surveillance Company
Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers now number more than 100,000 across the United States, quietly logging where your car goes and building...
Two Minutes, No Suspicion Required: Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Manually Search Your Phone at Will
In United States v. Belmonte Cardozo, the Fourth Circuit held that a manual search of your cellphone at the border is 'routine' — meaning a CBP office...
Chatrie v. United States: The Supreme Court Just Put the Fourth Amendment Between You and the Geofence Dragnet
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain historical location...
The Warrant-Free Surveillance Loophole That AI Just Made Catastrophically Worse
The government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, browsing history, or financial transactions — because it buys them from commercial da...
The AI Police State Is Already Here: How Axon, Flock Safety, and Motorola Are Watching You
Facial recognition. Behavioral analytics. Vehicle scanning 20 billion times a month. Predictive policing algorithms that flag you before any crime occ...
AI Is About to Make Warrantless Government Surveillance Exponentially Worse
Congress has temporarily extended FISA's Section 702 surveillance program twice this spring without the reforms privacy advocates have demanded for ye...
ICE's $28.7 Billion AI Surveillance Machine: Palantir, Clearview, and the End of Anonymous Public Life
ICE's FY2026 budget is ten times its total surveillance spending over the previous 13 years combined. Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracks self-deportation...
Your Hardware Run Is Now a Police Record: Home Depot's Secret License Plate Surveillance Network
Home Depot installed Flock Safety license-plate readers at all 233 of its California stores without telling customers — then shared that data with law...
When Police Cast a Net Instead of Catching a Suspect: The Supreme Court, Geofence Warrants, and the End of the Fourth Amendment as We Knew It
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States on April 27, 2026 — the first major Fourth Amendment case the justices have taken up sin...